English Dictionary

lector

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的

(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service. / (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.

日本語の意味

教会などで一定の宗教文書を朗読する一般信徒 / 大学などで公の講義や朗読を行う講師

At the Sunday church service, the lector stepped forward to read the first lesson in a calm, reverent tone.

日曜の教会の礼拝で、聖書朗読者が前に進み出て、落ち着いた敬虔な調子で第一朗読を読み上げた。

意味（1）

(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.

意味（2）

(education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.

意味（3）

(historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.

Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.

意味（4）

(television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.

The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.

lectors （ plural ）